Introduction

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Content outline

• Sounding out riches and risk: approaching environmental regulation of oil and gas within New Zealand's EEZ
  • Rights and obligations under international law
  • Legislative regime prior to EEZ Act and allocation
  • The EEZ Act's regime - oil and gas
  • EEZ regulations and oil and gas
  • Discharges and oil spill planning
  • Criminal and civil liability for oil spills
• The contractual and commercial framework for offshore oil and gas exploration in New Zealand
  • Obtaining the right to explore for oil and gas
  • Oil and gas explorers - typical structures
  • Conducting exploration
  • A discovery is made
  • Sales of oil and gas and gas transmission
  • Crown royalties
  • Abandonment
  • Applicable legal skills, cases and litigation
• The process of deep water exploration and production powerpoint